7/20 PBE Update: Akali Login Theme

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.15 PBE cycle, today's patch includes Akali's Choose and Ban VO, a new login theme, and more tentative balance changes!

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(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Context & Notes

1) Here's Meddler'squick gameplay thoughts for July 20th including context on crit item adjustments we've seen on the PBE, the new Cursor added in 8.14, and issues with locked camera and the minimap.

"Hi folks,

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Crit Item Adjustments

As you've probably seen we're trying some crit item balance changes on the PBE at the moment, aiming to have something in 8.15. We'll talk about that work in some more detail later sometime in the next few days. At a high level though our goals there are:
Shift some crit marksman power from late game to earlier in the game so that they get to switch on earlier (cheaper items and potentially easier build paths, slightly lower stats as a result)
Drop Zeal items to 25% crit to get rid of bad feels around overcapping crit with IE
Improve how IE crits feel (floating combat text work at least, maybe some mechanics changes too)

Overall we're particularly focused on satisfaction with this round of changes, targeting things that make playing crit ADCs feel poor, not just looking at power. Likely there'll be some further small adjustments early next week too.

Locked Camera and Minimap

We're looking into what changed with locked/semi locked camera and the minimap in 8.14. No changes to behavior were intended so we'll figure out what's causing some buggy behavior reported and get it addressed.

New Cursor

As of patch 8.14 this week the updated cursor's out, hope it's treating you well so far. For anyone that missed it if you'd much rather just use the old one instead it's easy to swap back to it. Just go to the Interface section of the Options menu."

"Some Fizz buffs for 8.15 that should be showing up on PBE during the next deploy:
+10 Base Damage to W Active +50 Base Damage and +0.2 AP Ratio to R (across all shark sizes) Also, a fix to his W active - should now applies spell effects."

"FYI, these are likely to change over the course of the next week if we see his winrate climb significantly as players learn the new Fizz W from 8.14"

Check out [THIS PAGE] for a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !